New Britain Herald Newspaper, December 13, 1915, Page 12

mp Announces His All-American Selections for 1915--Princeton Denies Rumor About il B Professionals --New Britain High School Alumni Hold First Meeting for Organization ter Camp Announces His J-American Team Makeu p ?flfllol"ity Names Members of Mystic Eleven ‘Who By Past Season’s Work Stand Out in Front. By WALTER CAMP. FIRST ELEVEN. Baston, Minnesota Gilman, Harvard . . Spears, Dartmouth Peck, Pittsburgh Schlachter, Syracuse. . Abell, Colgate Shelton, Cornell . Barrett, Cornell .. . King, Harvard .... . Macomber, Tlinois Mahan, Harvard . Camp in the current issue br's Weekly picks his All- football and his chronicle eleatign s as follows: | ang: of, all strange foot- | fons has staggered to a suc- | lose—successful because by | h ToVe Jof form the tension, | bt dytig Butien’ November 13 | ern possibilities,. was increas- ale’s victory over Princeton, ! led' to the possibility of the | ed océurring in the Harvard- | me. - But that game proved | [Garrison finiishes” and last- | bnzy are not a sound basis for | against - a'seasoned, well- | team. I feasoh “hegan in a common- lay. * Thé frst games of all the @ 'big: teams went off in the | nal amanner. suddeénly and without warn- ; ngs began .to '“happen, and the next few-weeks Yale had | lown “before Virginia 10 to 0, | the Army and Navy met in New York | <Washington and Jefferson 16 Harvard had been defeated by | 10 to 0; Pennsylvania had | ten by Penn State 13 to 3; | th ; had ‘been smothered by | on..30 40, Tyrthe Army had | paten.,by .Colgate 18 to 0, and vy had not won a game all the | ! By that time Cornell, Pitts- pnd Colgate were so far along looked, as is they would finisn ason without a defeat. The | ptf appetite was just about to be | because, as these three did not | leach other and as every other | of prominence in the East had | eaten, the finish of the season | h like an anticlimax. Then came | nal lap and. with it a riot »f | 8 happenings, three Eastern. teams that had een scored upon were Colgate, Pl and Pittshurg. Harvard, ington and . Jefferson, and | ‘éton were regarded as following V. Syracu- |, .Yale were down e ruck. But there was yet his- to be written. Now arrived the | ful 13th, and Syracuse snowed | ite under, while . Yale defeated | eton, and Pittsburg put an end | y aspiration of Washington and | rson. Even Cornell had a bud | t, for Washington and Lee, with her Barrett on her team, had the | cans well-night dazed in the ear- | art of the game, running up a | e of 21 to 7, only, however, to be SECOND ELEVEN. Herron, Pittsburgh . Buck, Wisconsin Hog; Cool, Cornell Blac] . v Vandegraaf, A i Higgins, Penn State. ‘Watson, Harvard Tibbott, Princeton . . Oliphant, West Pt. Talman, Rutgers ! oa, | red | en by Colgate, Villanova, and THIRD ELEVEN. Heyman, W. & J. . Cody, Vanderbilt Dadum, Harvard . . A 1, West Pt.. . Auburn Halligan, Squier, 1 Russell, Abra May irginia ... Berryman, Penn S, , Princeton .. k, Yale machine and held Yale powerless to do any damage. The final score was the worst beating Yale had ever re- ceived—no less than 41 to 0—coming within seven points of the score of 48 to 0 that Yale made aainst Harvard in 1885 Nor did any surprise happen in the west, for Minnesota defeated Wise8n- sin 20 to 7, and Illinois beat Chicago 10 to 0, thus leaving speculation as to championship in the middlewest based only upon ative scores, for Min- nesota and Iliinois had previously plaved a 6 to 6 tie- On Thanksgiving Doy Cornell feated Pennsylvania :W ~r the had led all the way u; % “ourth veri- in the end running W d over the and blue 24 to 9, aNl Pittsburg decisively ended Penn State's aspira- tions 20 to 0. Thle powerful Syracuse team, too, was tied by Montana—sug- gestive evidence of western prowess. | 2 | rushing game was the On the Saturday after Thanksgiving under wretched weather ~conditions, but before a huge crowd. The Army had been tied by Hely Cross and beat- Notre Dame, and the Navy had been beaten by Georgetown, Pittsburg, the North Carolina Aggies and Ursinus. Army, thanks largely to Oliphant, won 14 to 0. Yet, no matter what is the Army-Navy game is alw: citing contest. The abandon of the two schools, in the way they play the game, is worth seeing at any time, and New York was full of football en- thusiasm. Thus came to a close a season of startling surprise, and yet it de- ! may be fairly said that for the most part the teams ran rcasonably true to their real form, though they were at times somewhat crratic. Cornell and Pittsburg were undefeated, and, al- though Cornell defeated Harvard, Pittsburg could claim that her final game with Penn State was a more de~ cisive victory and more conclusive than was Cornell’s over Pennsylvania. It was a pleasure to welcome back into the American football fold Col- umbia University under Coach Met- calf, and also to find the University of California taking up the game once mere on the Pacific Coast. The season marked the culmination of deterioration in several of the' for- merly so-called big teams, mnotably Yale and Pennsylvania. To win in football requires the apparent eon- tradiction of the czar principle and the aken gradually by Sharpe's bet- | consent of the governed—Ilet there be lorganized and more pers combined with Captain Barrett's liancy. Michigan the Michigan Aggi the Michi- Aggies then outcla d by the pgon Aggies, and these beaten ad been beaten ! , with sole authority’ in stent at- | no mistake, it requires both of these factors. It may go under any name vou please, and the same system may sometimes be known as a “head coach and at other times as a “board of coache: with a But by another Pacific Coast team. | captain or field coach in charge e above-mentioned victory of Yale | gne is exactly the same as the ofher; r Princeton, together with these jt means that one man must have the er extraordinary results and the ' general planning of the campaign, itement caused by the reports of | however lleutenants may carry out the pshington and Lee's early lead on | principles of it and he must have the nell, served greatly to whet pub- «consent of the zoverncd” and by appetite once more. Those who ' not look beneath the surface saw eat chances for the ple' team, with the spirited coach- of Shevlin, to sweep Harvard to feat, and also possibilities of some- ing extraordinary happenings when ennsylvania met Cornell, or of Pena ate’s defeating Pittsburg. Anything ight occur, the; gued, in a season of this kind. Illi- ois might lose to Chicago, and Min- esota might be defeated by Wiscon- | in. Of, course ‘the largest crowd was resent ' at the Harvard-Yale game, nd Yale, in the first few minutes of play. im spite. of having lost the toss nd _the wind, carried the ball up to a¥Vard’s 20-yard line, and thus ade the huge crowd eager for the mexpected, The tumble came when Yale fumbled and, within striking distance, lost the ball to Harvard. But | his was not enough. Mahan punted, ale muffed the catch, and the Har- 'vara end .seized the ball and went over for a-touchdown! From that time on, with the exception of a few minutes toward the end of the game, Harvard, with her “run-from-kKick formationt “feinted and thrust until Yale was fairly exhzusted with almost supérhuman attempts to stop the blows ‘which came in unexpected places and threw her defense into dis- order. ‘ Mahan, Gilman, and King were tiae Harvard stars, but the rest of the team worked like a well-oiled Aetna Bowling Alleys 83 Church Street. 10 High Grade Alleys. New Patrons Welcome. Give usa visit. ? rejuvenated ; | that is meant, not the consent of the players alone but of the assistants and ! would-be advisers. | From practical experience I would v that when a men really cares for football as a sport and has played it-a number of years and followed it by seelng many other teams play, ne gradually accumulates a set of “do’s” and dont's” which enable him to make progress without repeating the experi- ments that have proved mistakes. Then if, instead of endeavoring with the blackboard to talk to fifty or sixty men, he gets a few loyal coaches and members of his squad during the winter and spring to talk over the | 1ast season and former seasons’ plays | and possibilities, he soon finds that | the whole hody of fifty or sixty are rapidly absorbing football. He gradu- oily builds up a football team that | will win, because his players are then | nc longer dummies, but actual think- | ing human beings who have studied out with him their own problems, who have had a definite interest beside biind obedience, and who, when they go out, are quite competent to de- | velop teams and systems of their own. It is a wonderful game, and it pro- vides the greatest study in human na- ture. Haughton has carried it out to perfection; so have Al Sharpe at Cor- rell and Harry Williams at Minnesota, Stagg at Chicago, Gilman Dobie at Washington, Sanford Rutgers, Zuppke at Illinois, Donahue at Au- burn, Folwell at Wash. and Jefferson, Yost at Michigan, Dr. Lambeth at Vir- sinia, and others elsewhere. Tad | Jenes at Exeter has heen accomplish- ing similar results. So also have Rush at Princeton and Warner at Pittsburg. They have been beaten (Dobie excepted) sometimes, but that is an incident. In the great lessons of play devel- Back row, left to right—Gregory 1.8.3 Seated, left to right—Cronin, c. inson, r.t. First row, left to right—J. Schmidt, p.b.; Nyborg, Lh.b.; Coffey, r. Hassan, r.h.b.; Lindgren, f.b.; Mulconry, l.t. . Schmidt, Le.,, mgr.; !’ccl;om, coach; Macholt Dennis, le. r.g., asst. mgr.; oped during the season Haughton of Harvard has been pre-eminent in car- rying the farthest to the front the kick-formation principle, which he describes as follows : “Perhaps what led more than any- thing else to the success of Harvard’s ever-present threat of Mahan in his kicking posi- tion.” He goes on to describe how from this formation Harvard threatened to kick, run the ends, forward-pass, or send the backs. He continue “It seemed to me that in both the Princeton and Yale games Harvard's | opponents acted as if they feared this ' play more than anything else, and no wonder, for during the last eight years Harvard has gained more ground through the medium of this play than any other. It was this threat and the corresponding spreading of l Yale's defense to meet it that enabled Dundee After Lightweight Title; Issues Challenges To New York, Dec. 13.—Scotly Mon- tieth, manager of Johnny Dundee, 1s out after the scalps of Willie Ritchi and Freddie Welsh. Welsh he wants particularly, and so sure is he that Dundee can stop the title holder that he is willing to sign over the entire purse to Welsh if Johnny doesn't stop him inside of twenty rounds. Dundee despite his Scotch name, is not a Welsh and Ritchie Scotchman. 1lis real name is Joseph Carrora, and he was born in Ttaly. He is one of the cleverest lightweighr hoxers in the game, and, while he is not quite as shifty as Welsh, still he possesses a suflicient knowledge of tne science of the game to give the crafly Welshman a hard battle, and he “packs a wallop” that, if landed right, would very likely “bring home tho bacon.” — Harvard to work so successfully her delayed passes inside tackle. On only one o sion did this latter style of play fail to gain, and on two occasions it scored touchdowns from 60 to 20 yards. From this same for- mation Harvard, owing to the uncer- tainty of Yale's backfield as to th2 exact nature of the intended play, was able to execute successfully the only two forward passes which. she tried.” The Need of Stronger Defense. He also states that Harvard has a laternal pass from this same forma- tion. Wherever any team developed a play, no matter how crude, from this kick formation, it proved at once, even with scant interference, more successful than any other formation and Harvard reached the point where | in both the Yale and Princeton games she made her plays 80 per cent. of the time from this arrangement. Outside of this and certain ‘“spread | hav ~ guard { ployer, one of the pair pla at Lafayette and elsewhere there were no very marked develop- ments in the season's play. The for- ward pass was better molded into the scheme of play and its real value ap- preciated, while a much more accur- ate knowledge of under what condi- tions it should be used, relative to the number of the downs and the position on the field, was acquired by the field generals. The season demonstrated conclu- sively that a study of the defense is imperative for not only the minor games but the so-called big games. i Many are falling behind in this re- spect, and there are only a few teams in the country that really understand modern defense. Haughton, a thor- ough student of defensive work, wrote the night after the Yale game as fol- lows: . “Yale formation antiquated. To re- vert again to the cause of Yale's de- feat, the Yale team itself shower per- haps more plainly than words can describe what a fearful handicap it was laboring under. Not only were the formations, both offensively and de- fensively, of an antiquated order, but the plays, with the exception of one, were ton simple t8’ offset the defen- sive training which/the Harvard team had since the begipping of the som. ey In -t what i of man; try. The All-America team this year in- cludes representative players from | over twenty different college The line selected is a heavy one. It has been demonstrated pretty closely this year that when men of this phy- sique can play football the power they | both in attack and defense, is well-night overwhelming. We have the most agile and clever center of the vear in Peck of Pittsburg, weighting about 175 pounds, but backed up by two guards so powerful that Peck gets uce to display his agility and not ' v about any weight that may be thrown against the center trio: are Schlachter of Syracuse and Spears of Dartmouth, tipping the | scales between them close to 500 pounds, and both extremely active as well. Schlachte in the game where Syracuse destroyed Colgate's hopes of an undefeated season by a tremendous score, was responsible largely for his whole side of the line. At tackles we have Abell, captain of the Colgate team, another heavy man and one of the best linesmen that has played the position in several years. He was practically the only man in the Colgaee line who could really stem the tide cf the Syracuse avalanche. For the other tackle we have Gilman of | Harvard, a powerful and thinking of men that made Harvard’s attack so strong this year and a man not only good on the defensive but a great opener of holes on offense. On the ends we have Ba ton of Minnesota and Shelton of ‘o nell, the former one of the best all- around men that the west has ever had, a good receiver of the pass, fas paragraph Haughton shows tle matter with the defense teams throughout the coun- d v forward in getting down the field, (Continued On Thirteenth Page.) Winter's Antidote. When winter comes in all its glory, Ratting around four-eighty-two; And life becomes the bleak, story With ears and nostrils turning Do I start cursing in my attic, Or shiver with the frozen brood Tied up,in attitudes rheumatic? Not on vour well known breakfast food. drear blue, 1 merely think of sunshine redder Than any known to summer’s sky, Beaming upon some double-header 1n Old St. Looey next July: And on my sultry meditation 1 lift the windows in my den, To try the cool the perspiration Which soaks my clammy brow again. Any number of baseball magnates are nice, affable, pleasant gentlemen. But their annual assembling in one riven spot leaves us strangely cold. We'd rather observe one good clean drive over second, with two on than altend all the magnate meetings ever arranged. That Kick Again. We were told a few days ago that Mr. Haxall had forwarded us an official ‘statement of that sixty-five vard field goal against Yale. The let- ter hag never arrived, but we see where the record maker figures that :xty-five yards was the correct dis ance. This should be sufficient to sub- stantiate the original reckoning of | Luther Price. The bulk of the evi- dence is all his way. A Theme for Dante. We notice that Mr. John J. McGraw is planning an early trip to Cuba. His departure should contain at least one poigant memory. A year ago this winter McGraw and Matty arranged for the same trip. | Two days before they started they were discussing certain plans in the lobby of the Imperial hotel. While the Giscussion was under way a certain leading official of the Bethlehem Steel company came by. This conver- sution followed: Bethlehem Official—*‘Hello, hello, Matty.” McGraw and Matty: McGraw—"“Well, Joe, any inside stuff from the market that might cven up for that world series money we missed this fall?” Bethlehem Official—‘'Sure, I've got something that has all the world series ever played beaten to death.” Mac and Matty (in chorus)—"Spill it quick.” Bethlehem Official Steel. Go to it.” The next afternoon the same man | 1an into McGraw again. ‘‘Say Mac,” he said, “I know you're in a rush to get away and won't have any time to attend to outside business. But that Bethlehem Steel tip goes. Let me carry 500 shares for you, and then you forget about it. I'll tell you when to sell.” “I'll think Mac; “Hello, Joe.” “Bethlehem it over,” said McGraw. Put he didn’t. In the rush of leaving he forgot all about it. Bethlehem Steel was then selling at 40. Later on it went to 600. Possible profit for McGraw on the 500 shares—$280,000. The one spoken word “Allright,” would have gathered in for the Glant der as much money as he has made ce coming to New. York twelve vars ago. But it was never spoken. And later on his ball club buckled up and finished last; 1915 will never be written down as John J.'s luckiest vear. Double-Crossing the Dope. A gale was blowing forty miles hour up the street; The snow was piled in the way The copper’s beak was frozen as he stalked along his beat, With no one but the coal man feeling gay. But the Poet sprang a tune Of the violets and June, Remarking, as he penued his lay, “Any blooming dub can sing Fancy spring songs in the spring, But it takes a star to warble today.” “Yale's policy an drifts along one is to drop no fall before. Which leaves Old simple choice—either to get a coaching system or else abolish schedule committee. EN a new Half-strides, Hell hath no fury like racificist. It's better to dwell with a brawling woman in a narrow house than with a golfer off his game | Many are called but jay dozin.’ a peeved most of them Among those Who can't unde why England, Germany and don't: go out for peace are Jim more, Ban Johnson and John Tener. Gil- K. little | | letes. ! rumor team ! from the schedule that beat Yale the | the | Grantland Rice gclf. He was soon shown the impor- tance of keeping one's eyes focussed upon the pill. “As important as it is in golf,” he said, “it is equally impor- tant in drop-kicking or place-kicking. Most kicks that you see missed result from the kicker looking up a share | too soon. He is too anxious to see | that ball cross the bar.” | “The same thing is true in base- 1, said Sammy Strang, the ex- Glant now coaching the Army ball team. *1 have studied both baseball and golf and the main faults of both are much alike—either from taking your eye off the ball or from starting your body before your arms get under | way. Many a strikeout has resulted from the batsman taking his eye off the ball as it rippled up toward the i plate.” Fred Merkle's. main fault in 1914 was starting his body ahead of his arms. This broke up the timing of his swing and killed all power. 8o Igst winter down South Fred worked the proposition out while playing golf. He soon improved his timing and by +hifting the same swing to a baseball swing lifted his average fifty points in one year, By this date the two squirrels on , the Ford Peace ship should have in- d:gestion, the gout and all other ilis that result from overfeeding upon one’s favorite fodder. Now that Herzog has bulit a first | ciass club, you can quote your own price upon 'his being retained. | “Do you need a caddie at golf pool?” inquires Reggle H. No, only ! en expert accountant, if you play as, we do. The last excuse for the European | war was removed when those Rus- sian, Polish, Bulgarian and Turkish wrestlers came to America. Now that most of these are so far removed from the Cannon Fodder district there little left to Jjustify wso '‘muck slaughter, | -— W. 8. Lu—Thanks, but we are about through offering advice to magnates, They are on the verge of losing their own kale, not ours. | v “Why wouldn’t Tad Jones make a better head coach for Yale than Fos- ter Sanford ?”’ writes Eli '99. We don't know. “Gotch will come back to face Joe Stecher, the new Nebraska wonder.” A1, without exception, come back once too often. And Gotch was with Jeftries on the “return trip” in 1916, Harvar¢ is to play ten games next fall, but adopting the C. Brickley system, you can write eight of them off exactly ten months before the kick-off. ” “Western ‘Conference to put base- ball on trial.” Rather baseball 1is yutting the Western Conference on trial. PRINCETON DENIES RUMOR OF CHARGES Report That Yale Tried to Have | Tigers Disqualified, Branded as False—Bascball Men Involved. “No charge of professionalism made against any Princeton athlete at] the recent conference in New York.*" This was the reply made by Dean Mo Clenahan about a rumor to the effec that Yale had presented evidence : the conference which if substantiate would have made imperative the dise qualification as professionals of a least four prominent Printeton agh- Dean McClenahan insisted on making it perfectly plain that Prince ton wanted to deny the truth of the officially and insisted that it was made out of whole cloth. All four of the athletes who names were mentioned in the rumol are haseball players and a couple of them also are prominent in anothe: sport. The disqualification of quartet would make just about as bl a gap in the Princeton nine nex spring as the recent upheaval bi fair to make at Yale. / Dean McClenahan's categorical ded nial shows that if Yale has any evi dence against Princeton athletes was deemed wise not to present it d the recent conference at the Kal Club in New York. As that eon ference was designed to bring three participants, Harvard, Yale ar Princeton, even closer together fha they were before, it obviously was » the place for one of the three to pre sent formal charges against either g the others. Such an action undou edly would have more harm than g and if Yale realy has any proof {h will convict Princeton athletes of 'yt “Yonr Eye on the Ball-" A few days ago (oach Rush of Princeton was lured into a round at fessionalism it probably will brought forth at some other time aj in some other way. v